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From: bjoern@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: How store extra data at the end of an executable?
Message-ID: <2665.04.91@drdhh.hanse.de>
Date: 11 Apr 91 17:58:58 GMT
References: <615@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
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From article <615@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, by warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison):
> Try:
> 	1. Generate your .PRG (eg. with C or M2 linker, etc)
> 	2. Have a separate program to:
> 		a) Fseek to the end of the .PRG file
> 		b) append any other data

Works, but my confuse future loaders, etc.
Cleaner method:
Define a field in your programs data segment.
Taking the offset (in the running program) from your
textseg to the fields address you can figure out where
your data is on disk. (offset + sizeof(PROGRAMHEADER)).

Hope that helps, Bjoern


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